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three ships landed in jamestown to create a colony
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jamestown was established the first permanent english settlemant in north america
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john smith was captured by indians while going to explore a local area with several other colonists and he was givin to the cheif powhatan
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lord de la warr arrives and prevents gates and 250 settlers from returning to england
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captain argall captures pocahontas and brings her to jamestown as a hostage
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rolfe ships his first load of tobbacco to england
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the virginia house of burgesses meet for the first time
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The General Assembly meets in the choir of the Jamestown church; its first law requires tobacco to be sold for at least three shillings per pound.
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Twenty blacks are purchased from a passing Portuguese slave ship bound from Luanda, Angola, to Vera Cruz. They may not have been the first, since some 32 Africans were noted five months earlier in a Virginia census of 1619.
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The Powhatan Indian Attack kills 347 colonists, setting off a war that lasted a decade.
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The Abigail arrives with no food and an infectious load of passengers plague and starvation reduce the colony to 500 persons; the colonists hold out hope for the arrival of the Seaflower
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he died of a stroke after ruling scottland for 50 years and england for 22 years
